Such a crazy, brutal slasher! A fun, quick read that will have you on the edge of your seat the entire time. The ending was insane and the twists were great. Highly recommend!

What a read! Crazy and most of all creepy. I really enjoyed this and would like to read more from Wil Forbis.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the eArc in exchange for my honest opinions.

WHOA! A dark and brutal book. If this doesn't give some kind of nightmare, there's something wrong with you. The killings did it for me. A true slasher with all the suspense.

I absolutely enjoyes reading this. Will definitely be recommending. Kept me really hooked I'll love to reread again

Dog this was a crazy read. Like when they say "sophisticated weaponry" they are NOT kidding. This book was brutal, and I ate it up.

The internet can make a person feel free pretend to be someone else. Then as they hide behind the ‘mask’, they are able to write or record anything they want. Most of the time people are not held accountable for their actions. They care not about how their posts could affect the person’s life or mental status. Then there is the need for vengeance. This idea makes people not only single minded but so very dangerous. They have lost all sense of humanity and are only thinking of what was taken from them: not what they are taking from someone else. Each death scene was more horrific than the one before. Had I of been Mason, I would have got the heck out of town. This whole scenario was frightening not only because Mason’s friends were in danger but that there was an underlying story that did not get closure until the end……an what an end it was!

Wil Forbis’s The Mirror Man is a razor-sharp, blood-soaked thriller that slices into the dark underbelly of digital cruelty and guilt. A modern slasher with a psychological edge, this novel grabs readers from its first violent act and doesn’t let go until its final, chilling twist.

Set in a small town steeped in secrets and petty cruelties, the story begins with a viral sex video that shatters the life of a local beauty queen. The online world reacts as it often does—with mockery, cruelty, and silence. College student Mason Gutierrez, caught between guilt and complicity, keeps her head down. But her silence makes her no safer than the worst offenders. A masked killer soon emerges, targeting those who left digital fingerprints on the victim’s humiliation.

What follows is a brutal game of retribution that twists the classic slasher formula into something more modern and morally tangled. Forbis injects a clever social critique into the carnage, using the killer’s vendetta to ask uncomfortable questions about accountability in the internet age: When everyone has the power to destroy a life with a click or a share, where does responsibility begin—and end?

Mason is a compelling protagonist: flawed, haunted, and increasingly isolated as her past choices come back to haunt her. The killer, too, is more than a stock boogeyman; there’s a calculated, methodical intelligence beneath the mask, and their weaponry suggests planning that goes far beyond rage. This isn’t a mindless spree—it’s a vendetta with rules, patterns, and purpose.

Forbis’s writing is taut and cinematic, with scenes that evoke the visceral terror of classic horror films while anchoring the story in the emotional fallout of digital shame. The gore is plentiful but never gratuitous—it serves a larger narrative about how violence manifests when compassion is absent and justice is warped.

Verdict:
The Mirror Man is a smart, savage thriller that updates the slasher for the viral age. Wil Forbis delivers a story that’s not just about who the killer is, but what we become when we look away—and what happens when the mirror looks back. Fans of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Black Mirror will find plenty to enjoy—and fear.

i love mason!!!!!!!!!! this book has so many fun twists and turns. the kills are brutal, but it never felt like it was trying too hard. i had so much fun reading it. can't wait for more from wil forbis!

The plot. The story. The characters. I was completely engaged in this and it was hard to put down. I’m a new fan of horror! Thank you

I am torn between THIS is the stuff that slashers of my childhood are made of and well, now I get how this is better off as a movie than a book.

I like how it's written, I assure you this had me getting up just to go check the locks, etc. By the way, while we're on this subject, the best time to read this is while.your side of the world is asleep.

My favourite horror genre is slasher so I was immediately drawn to this book and it kept me hooked, great slasher overall.

I love a good slasher movie and this provided me everything I love in those but on a page, it was so nostalgic. I really enjoyed it and read it really quickly in one sitting

I am not sure if author Wil Forbis would agree with me, but 'The Mirror Man' had the comfortable feel of one of those masked killer horror movies where there are a selection of expendables, a fiendish murderer, and plenty of twists and turns along the way. That is meant as a genuine compliment.

The body count starts rising in the small town of St. Anne, with each death coming via one of those wonderfully elaborate methods that can only exist in the horror genre. As the police and Forbis' potential final girl Mason struggle to piece together who is behind these serial killings the threats and danger ramp up quickly.

This one reads fast and delivers an extremely satisfying conclusion - which isn't always the case in this sort of story.

Trippy genre violence. A sadistic masked killer. In other words: fun stuff!

This was a good read, especially when your in between books and don’t know what to go for. I hadn't read too many good slasher books lately but this was a good one. It was good fun to read, easy plot to fall into and characters that fit into the teen slasher genre. This had everything a slasher needs; an anonymous killer in a mask, gruesome death scenes, and of course, the final girl.

Thank you to publisher and to NetGalley.

Contradictory, ill-researched, and frustrating, I pushed myself to get through this and skimmed most of the ending which felt superfluous and didn't seem to have any bearing on the story.

Thanks to.BooksGoSocial and Net galley for letting me have this ARC.

haven't read a thriller/slasher that's really gripped me in a while!

This book had fantastic twists and turns, constantly kept you guessing who did it!
the last 20% of the book my head was whirrling with what was going on!

If you want a fast paced, no nonsense slasher this is the book for you!

The gory details and slasher descriptions were well done, and the story flowed smoothly overall. While the beginning was a bit slow-paced, it picked up momentum and kept me reading once things got going.

That said, the plot felt a little far-fetched at times, and the characters came across as quite immature. The writing style occasionally made me roll my eyes, and I didn’t feel fully engaged throughout.

I’d recommend this one to young adult horror-thriller readers looking for something entertaining and quick to get through.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for a free e-ARC of this book

I love to read horror books and enjoyed reading The Mirror Man. I liked the overall plot and some of the writing was fantastic. I feel the author was imaginative and there were some ideas I thought were interesting. I was surprised by the twist at the end. It was relaxing for me to read and I plan to buy it when it has been published.

Thank you Netgalley and Wil Forbis for letting me read this copy early!

I enjoyed this slasher book more than I would have thought! The storyline of the book is very intriguing. I found that the book moved quickly and had me at the edge of my seat. I’m a huge fan of the multiple perspectives, it not only made the story move quickly, but you are able to see another perspective. Definitely worth reading!

Wow! This was: bad! I was genuinely so exited and almost immediately my excitement was extinguished. I figured out who the Mirror Man was literally within the first 10% of the book and subsequently every other "twist" almost as soon as they were introduced. On top of that, the wiring was just… bad. It felt like a teenager who wants people to think they're smart and sophisticated and therefore uses a vocabulary they think makes them sound mature but it's just… awkward. The idea was cool (though definitely not unique) and I feel like it would make a good Criminal Minds episode, but this book just did NOT work for me, unfortunately.